Vulnerability in Nicholas Marriott Tmux

CVE-2011-1496

tmux 1.3 and 1.4 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows local users to gain utmp group privileges via a filename to the -S command-line option.

EPSS: 0.010 (57.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2011-1496?
CVE-2011-1496 is a vulnerability in Nicholas Marriott Tmux, classified under CWE-264. Published 2011-04-18.
Is CVE-2011-1496 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.